Peasant foods
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Peasant foods are dishes eaten by peasants, made from accessible and inexpensive ingredients.
Acquacotta, an Italian bread soup
Scrapple, a Pennsylvania Dutch poverty food
Fried cauliflower with agliata sauce
Pot-au-feu, the basic French stew, a dish popular with both the poor and the rich alike
Scrapple
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Scrapple, also known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name Pannhaas, is a traditional mush of fried pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices.
Plate of scrapple, unbrowned (left) and browned (right)
Scrapple sandwich at the Delaware State Fair